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A wealthy benefactor of the disgraced leader of an upstate New York self-improvement group is facing sentencing in a federal sex slave case

Fox News' Chris Wallace had the near-impossible task Tuesday of trying to control the first presidential debate as its moderator, and continually expressed frustration with his role

A new documentary is diving into the complicated and sometimes contradictory life of James Meredith, a Black civil rights figure who helped change Mississippi

Helen Reddy, the Australian-born singer who scored an enduring hit with her feminist anthem “I Am Woman,” has died at 78 in Los Angeles

Borat is back

Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson’s extraordinary new film, “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” was spurred in part by what she never captured, says Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review

Rap artist NBA YoungBoy is among 16 people who have been arrested on drug and firearm charges in Louisiana’s capital city

With the coronavirus having thrown a halt to the production of most dramas and comedies, television ratings for the first week of the fall season were way down compared to last year

Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander play the writer and feminist icon Gloria Steinem at various stages in “The Glorias,” an unconventional and ambitious biopic from director Julie Taymor

This is not your momma’s Bon Jovi

Gabrielle Union and NBC say they have settled their differences in their dispute over her firing from “America’s Got Talent.”

The Walt Disney Co. will make a follow-up to the 2019 live-action “The Lion King,” with Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning “Moonlight” and the James Baldwin adaptation “If Beale Street Could Talk,” set to direct

Prosecutors in Texas have rejected a drunken driving charge against conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones, who was arrested in Austin earlier this year

A British judge says the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper can use the contents of a recent behind-the scenes book about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in its defense for a lawsuit brought by the duchess

Alicia Keys, Bad Bunny, Luke Combs and leading nominee Post Malone will perform at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards

At last year’s Latin Grammy Awards, popular reggaeton and Latin trap musicians such as J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Ozuna were dismissed in the show’s top categories

Adam Lambert is not Freddie Mercury

Three years into the #MeToo movement, a major Hollywood survey led by Anita Hill has found little faith in the ranks of the entertainment industry that sexual harassers will be held to account

Jane Igharo’s “Ties That Tether” tells the story of Azere, a Nigerian immigrant living in Canada who promises her dying father that she will only marry a Nigerian man

Georgia State Patrol arrested rapper Lil Yachty this month after he was allegedly caught driving more than 150 mph on an Atlanta highway

"From one Valkyrie to another, safe home."

Organizers of the Al Smith Dinner say President Donald Trump will be in virtual attendance on Thursday as the annual New York City event moves mostly online because of the coronavirus pandemic

This week’s new entertainment releases There's a starry film adaptation of the play “The Boys in the Band” on Netflix with Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells

A Texas sheriff has been indicted on charges accusing him of destroying or concealing video in an investigation into the death in custody of a Black man, Javier Ambler, that was filmed by a police reality TV series “Live PD.”

The New York Times' deeply-reported story on President Donald Trump's taxes was much talked-about in the media

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine who was forced out of her job last year by the Trump administration, is being honored by PEN America

Malta says it will seek to retrieve a shark tooth that was presented to Britain’s Prince George by veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, who found the fossil during a holiday on the Mediterranean island in the 1960s

Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei staged a silent protest outside London’s Old Bailey court against the possible extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States where he is wanted on espionage charges

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will be honored next month by MacDowell, which is presenting its inaugural Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award to her media company and arts collective ARRAY

The British novelist who gave us “High Fidelity” and “About a Boy” is back with an endearing tale about an affair that defies convention

Steve Harvey says his daytime talk show being canceled by NBC opened up new doors with Facebook Watch

All eyes are on Fox's Chris Wallace as he prepares to moderate the first presidential debate

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 4-10 include the actors Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet and Emily Mortimer

Two weeks shy of a year after his abrupt exit from Fox News Channel, Shepard Smith is making his return to television

Fleet Foxes' autumn equinox release “Shore” sees lead singer and principle songwriter Robin Pecknold combine some of the more experimental elements of 2017's “Crack-Up” and marry them to the brightness found on preceding albums

Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s first feature film “Beginning” triumphed at Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival, winning four top prizes including best film and best director

Veteran broadcaster David Attenborough has given Britain’s Prince George a giant shark tooth fossil after a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace

Officials say three Bollywood actors, including top star Deepika Padukone, have been questioned by India’s narcotics agency as part of an investigation into the movie industry’s alleged links with drug peddlers and cartels

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Actress Billie Lourd has announced the birth of her son

A former college entrance exam administrator has pleaded guilty to taking bribes to help wealthy parents rig their kids’ test scores as part of the college admissions bribery scheme

Nobel Prize-winning writer Olga Tokarczuk has declined an honorary citizenship from the region of Poland where she lives because she would have had to share the honor with a Roman Catholic bishop who has made hostile comments about the LGBT community

A New Hampshire man who suffered serious spinal injuries when a stage diver landed on his head during a concert in New Jersey has reached a $2 million settlement with the show’s organizer

Following his sparse and haunting 2015 album “Carrie & Lowell,” the 15-track “The Ascension” sees Sufjan Stevens shift from an internal gaze to a response to his external environment

Lydia Loveless has been through much in the past few years and “Daughter,” her first original album since 2016, keeps her heart on her sleeve and reveals that not all the scars have healed

The Grammy Award for cutest collaboration of the year goes to Carrie Underwood and her 5-year-old son Isaiah

Statue depicts the late pope St. John Paul II throwing a boulder into red water.

The new series “Tehran” opens with a commercial flight from Jordan to India that’s suddenly diverted to Iran

Every step to stardom was meticulously planned.

Japanese pop sensation ARASHI has a big surprise for fans as they near their planned hiatus at year’s end: a collaboration with Bruno Mars on their first all-English single